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in common exercife, fhould never be per- 

 mitted to drink at all m Jharp jh allow Jlr earns ^ 

 that run over a rufty gravel, or through a 

 Hack peaty foil ; they are equally harih, and 

 feldom or never fail to have a fevere effedt 

 upon the inteflinal canal, in producing /?(?/■ 

 or cholic in a greater or lefs degree, and fet- 

 ting the coat by a fudden collapfion of the 

 cutaneous pores in a few minutes after ufe. 



To enumerate the minutise of manage- 

 ment, and bring it into a concife and fingle 

 point of view, I heartily (and upon experi- 

 mental proof of the advantage) recommend 

 every perfon upon a journey, "wh ether long or 

 Jhorty who takes up his temporary reiidence 

 AT INNS, to make it his invariable rule to 

 SEE (by either himfelf or fervant) that his 

 horfes are drejfed^ fed, and watered; their 

 heels waihed, feet flopped, hoofs oiled, and 

 his equipments, or apparatus, whether for 

 riding or driving, examined as to their fafety, 

 every night or morning, if not at every ftage ; 

 perhaps the latter may always prove the 

 moft eligible, for thofe who will compound 

 at a very trifling degree of additional trouble, 

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